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Thanks for that, I had a feeling it'd be released near Halloween. :D

Anyway, here's a preview. (contains a few spoilers about the mythical creatures in the DLC as well as a few story spoilers.)

I recently sat down with Rockstar to play about an hour's worth of the upcoming expansion to Red Dead Redemption, dubbed Undead Nightmare. I was not prepared for how massive this downloadable add-on is. For just 10 bucks (800 Microsoft points), Rockstar is adding what nearly amounts to a whole new game. There's a roughly six hour storyline, complete with cutscenes and new music. There are all new enemies, mounts to ride, outfits to wear, side-quests and challenges. There's even new multiplayer content (which I can't talk about until next week). This download is, to put it succinctly, absolutely huge. And it's all going to be available October 26.

Rather than continuing where Red Dead Redemption left off, Undead Nightmare is a side-story to the main campaign. Once you have it downloaded, you can select it from the main menu screen and hop straight into a tale of zombacalyptic proportions. This is a complete side-story -- everything you do in Undead Nightmare does not interact with your game progress in the main game.

The story goes like this: An infection is sweeping through the land, turning everyone into zombie shells of their former selves. As John Marston, it's up to you to discover the source of the outbreak and set things right. The brief bit of the actual storyline I played showed that Rockstar is clearly approaching this add-on with a sense of humor. The cutscene featured the old grave robber Seth -- as loony as ever -- trying to play poker with a zombified version of his old pal Moses. Things don't work out that well.

After watching this little introduction, I got to ride out into the countryside to see how different this alternate universe actually is. The landscape is the same, but just about everything else feels drastically altered. Buildings and towns are in disarray, overrun with the undead. The infection has even spread to animals as bats fly overhead and zombie wolves nip at your heels. Should your horse die and you whistle for him, you'll find a zombie version comes racing back. They look awesome and have better endurance and speed than your average horse, though they don't always follow directions.

Zombie horses are pretty sweet, but they're not what you'll wind up riding for long. Mythical creatures, including the four horses of the apocalypse, can be found in this add-on. I managed to find War, a horse with flames for hair that would ignite any zombies that shambled too close. Also up for grabs, if you can break them, are Death (it instantly explodes zombie heads on contact) and Famine and Pestilence (both have unlimited stamina and can't be killed).

Eventually, you'll want to get off your horse and get face to face with the zombies. That's when you'll find that the entire map is infested, including most every town and settlement, and that you can't camp or sleep anywhere that zombies exist. To get to a bed, you'll need to clear out an overrun town. You can do that either by providing the leftover townsfolk with supplies or by killing all of the zombies yourself. In exchange, you'll get a place to sleep and a few crates full of ammo -- a big prize in a world where the economy has crumbled and the only real currency is bullets.

But then, even after you clear out a town, the zombies will eventually come back. They always do.

There are a bunch of other side quests to keep you busy. Clearing out the five graveyards -- the equivalent of gang hideouts – is a big one. Others include new ambient challenges, or rescuing missing people (the Undead Nightmare equivalent of hunting down wanted criminals).

The Zombies are pretty tough, as you'll quickly learn. Bullets to the body don't do much. To thin the hordes, you'll want to aim for the head – it helps conserve precious ammo as well. Making matters worse, there are four different varieties of undead, ranging from simple zombies to fast moving Bolters all the way up to big Bruisers and a type that spits toxic bile for a ranged attack.

Thankfully, there are some new weapons to use against them. Holy water, zombie bait, and boom bait are new items that can be tossed into a crowd for massive damage. There's also a blunderbuss that uses zombie bits and pieces as ammunition. Scavenge any killed zombie for parts and you'll get fingers, eyes and limbs to shove in this shotgun of sorts. It's easily the most powerful weapon in the game -- a single shot will cause any zombie to explode into a mist of blood. That also makes it so you can't scavenge any zombies killed with the blunderbuss, limiting its overall use.

Rockstar really went all out on this download. It's not just a cosmetic change -- this feels like a whole new world to explore. Just go ahead and lasso a zombie. Listening to it groan and watching it randomly kick about while I tied it up was downright hilarious.

http://uk.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/112/1127395p1.html

Sounds great, but I can't see myself playing it for some time. I'll be all about Vanquish and New Vegas when this hits, but it'll make for a nice treat to play during the slow Christmas nights.

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Nah, imagine they did an entire game dedicated to a zombie apocalypse within a Libertyesque City and focused on the gradual breakdown of society. Using radio and television to gradually build up the picture, from isolated reports of murders and riots, all the way up to mass panic, evacuation, advice from the government and ultimately ceasing to exist as the television and radio stations are abandoned (perhaps hearing Lazlo torn apart by zombies live on air). You'd clamber into a car, flick through the radio stations and just get recorded messages or static.

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Apologies, but I thought this deserved its own post instead of editing it into an earlier post...

Some info on the new MP modes in Undead Nightmare and an announcement that Undead Nightmare and other DLC packs will also be available to buy on a standalone disc to be released at a later date.

Undead Nightmare also features: “new challenges, quests, and ambient events, including Missing Persons, where the player must find a missing survivor lost amongst the throngs of undead”.

New competitive multiplayer and multiplayer free roam content has also been added, and includes: Undead Overrun, a “brand new multiplayer survival mode where waves of infected attack and players must work together to stay alive against increasingly difficult odds”.

Also coming soon, Undead Nightmare which is a single, stand-alone disc bundling together the Undead Nightmare Pack,the Outlaws to the End Co-Op Mission Pack, the Legends and Killers Pack, the Liars and Cheats Pack and all the Multiplayer Free Roam modes released to date.

The disc also includes additional multiplayer via the new Graveyard Mode. It’s a survival mode where “waves of infected enemies attack” and players must work together to stay alive against increasingly difficult odds.

Sounds a bit like Undead Overrun.

Undead Nightmare will be available at retail stores everywhere for $29.99/£24.99/€29.99 and does not require a copy of Red Dead Redemption to play. No date yet, just “coming soon”.

http://www.vg247.com/2010/10/14/rdr-undead-nightmare-and-other-dlc-to-be-released-via-stand-alone-disc/#more-123328

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Goddamn, I'm hooked all over again. I've started a second playthrough with expert aiming, which pretty much transform every gunfight into a real nailbiter. I was in a cutscene in one of the stranger missions when the mythical Jackalope suddenly wandered by. After a frantic search through the bushes I was finally able to shoot and skin it, getting me one step nearer the Hunter outfit. Hunting cougar with dynamite might be a bit tricky, though.

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Nah, imagine they did an entire game dedicated to a zombie apocalypse within a Libertyesque City and focused on the gradual breakdown of society. Using radio and television to gradually build up the picture, from isolated reports of murders and riots, all the way up to mass panic, evacuation, advice from the government and ultimately ceasing to exist as the television and radio stations are abandoned (perhaps hearing Lazlo torn apart by zombies live on air). You'd clamber into a car, flick through the radio stations and just get recorded messages or static.

There are some elements of this in [ProtoType], although it's not a proper Zombie game.

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Eurogamer:

Rockstar has announced plans to release Undead Nightmare, a standalone disc bundling all the Red Dead Redemption downloadable content together.

The official site doesn't say exactly when it will be out, but it does say that you will pay £24.99 / €29.99 for the privilege of owning it and that it won't need a copy of Red Dead to play. (Update: Rockstar told Eurogamer it had nothing to announce on a date right now.)

Undead Nightmare will consist of the Undead Nightmare Pack, due out on 26th October this month, as well as the Outlaws to the End Co-op Mission Pack, the Legends and Killers Pack, the Liars and Cheats Pack and all the Multiplayer Free Roam modes released so far.

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Goddamn, I'm hooked all over again. I've started a second playthrough with expert aiming, which pretty much transform every gunfight into a real nailbiter. I was in a cutscene in one of the stranger missions when the mythical Jackalope suddenly wandered by. After a frantic search through the bushes I was finally able to shoot and skin it, getting me one step nearer the Hunter outfit. Hunting cougar with dynamite might be a bit tricky, though.

Haha this has been my quest for the last two days i finally got the outfit tonight. Finding snakes was a pain in the ass and finding a Cougar took ages. I finally wandered down to Rio Bravo and was trotting along when a Cougar pounced behind me i sped off on my horse dropping dynamite, missed twice, third one got the bastard.

The saw a weird rabbit thing and shot it i had no idea that was the Jackalope. Finally got my outfit. :D

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Behold – the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. Pestilence, Famine, Death, and War.

This legendary quartet of doom is among the mythical creatures you’ll encounter while roaming the frontier in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare – stay tuned as we’ll be revealing more of them in the days leading up to the October 26th release of the pack on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network.

Each of the four horses possess special powers, provided you can break these raging beasts.

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Death

With Hell following close behind, Death carries with him a violent wake that rattles through the skulls of the undead, causing a spectacular cranial explosion for any zombie it comes in contact with.

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Famine

Attracting a swarm of insects wherever it travels, Famine's thin shadowy frame and crimson eyes mask an everlasting stamina.

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Pestilence

A ghastly harbinger of plague and disease that's easily identifiable by its exposed wounds and ocular hemorrhaging, Pestilence possesses an exceptionally high pain threshold.

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War

Given power to take peace from the earth, the fiery red horse known as War ignites a trail of flame upon all those in its path, turning the living and the undead alike into smoldering ash.

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